Documenting the people and tools behind a NASA human spaceflight mission

In addition to photographing the people behind the mission, some of the most important pieces in Soluri’s photo project are the ingenious, one-of-a-kind tools used by the astronauts to repair and upgrade the Hubble.

The servicing had originally been scheduled for 2004, but NASA canceled the mission after the Columbia disaster heightened concerns about shuttle astronauts' safety. With the Hubble doomed to expire in orbit as its gyros failed, schoolchildren across the ...

The Hubble Space ... at spacewalking astronauts on Friday, but with more elbow grease and a “if at first you don’t succeed, try again” attitude they were able to accomplish all the objectives for the second EVA of the repair mission.

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Repairing the Hubble Space Telescope: The Tools Astronauts Used

According to Werneth, three-time Hubble repair mission astronaut John Grunsfeld, who now serves as associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, described the entire repair process as "doing brain surgery in the dark while wearing oven ...

As part of a series of public events that the International Space University will host this summer, Jeff Hoffman, one of seven crewmates sent to repair the Hubble telescope, retold the story of his mission. The Hubble has allowed astronomers to study the ...

Two spacewalking astronauts overcame a ... "Awesome," responded Mission Control. On Saturday, spacewalkers John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel breezed through a similar but less demanding repair of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, a heavily …

Its estimated cost is $900 million. Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe had canceled a Hubble repair mission in the wake of the Columbia shuttle disaster that killed seven astronauts in 2003. O'Keefe believed the risks were too great and the remaining ...

As John Grunsfeld-one of the mission astronauts with Andrew Feustel, Gregory Johnson, Megan McCarthur, Michael Good, Scott Altman, and Michael Massimino-puts it: "We got a lot of things we want to repair in Hubble and upgrade in Hubble, and not a …

The first two spacewalks ended up running long because of unexpected difficulties encountered with Hubble, last visited seven years ago. The astronauts cheered when Mission Control radioed ... performed on four previous repair missions.